Current Advocacies

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July 2026

The issue is significant, but the figure is closer to 20% than 25% based on Jamaica's National Housing Policy and government data. Estimates indicate that about one in five Jamaicans (roughly 600,000 people) live in informal or squatter settlements. 

Many of these communities lack:

• Proper road networks 
• Piped water 
• Legal electricity connections 
• Sewage and drainage systems 
• Garbage collection 
• Secure land titles 

This makes it difficult and expensive for the government to provide infrastructure after settlements have already developed. 

Central Clarendon is one of the areas where this problem is especially visible. Communities around May Pen.

May 2024

The Government of Jamaica should consider making the national sex offender registry publicly accessible to help protect children and vulnerable members of society. Public access could enable parents, guardians, schools, and communities to make more informed decisions and increase awareness of potential risks.

Any such system should include appropriate legal safeguards to ensure that only accurate information about convicted offenders is published, while respecting due process and complying with the law. The primary goal should be to strengthen public safety, support crime prevention, and help protect Jamaica's children..

May 2024

Jamaica should complete its transition to becoming a republic, with a Jamaican serving as the country's head of state instead of the British monarch. This change would reflect Jamaica's sovereignty, national identity, and constitutional independence while allowing the country to retain its democratic system and parliamentary form of government.

Becoming a republic would give Jamaica the opportunity to modernize its Constitution, strengthen its national institutions, and ensure that the office of head of state is held by a Jamaican chosen according to the country's own constitutional process. This step would mark an important milestone in Jamaica's development as an independent nation while preserving the rule of law, democratic governance, and the rights and freedoms of its people.